the first paragraph of her obituary described her as a woman who “made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. She was also, according to her son Matthew, ‘The world’s best mom.’” It was only in the second graph that the paper of record got around to mentioning that stroganoff champ, husband follower and awesome mom Brill also “invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from slipping out of their orbits.” Oh, that too.

Admittedly that other stuff is important too, especially for her family, but that is not what she was to most of the world, so you put that SECOND.

The part about "following her husband" is the most damning to me. You would never say that about a man. Heck, the reason we live in Tokyo now is because I "followed" my wife because she had managed to transfer into a very respected and prestigious university. But if you put that in my obit I'd haunt your house for eternity. Yeesh.

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